The Penn's Grove record., 1887-08-06
NEWS OF THE WEEK

Il. Anthony, and editor of the Times
newspaper of Leavenworth, Kansas,
was cowhided on the street in that city
on the 9th by a Councilman named
Bond for the publication of alleged
scurrilous articles.
The Comptroller of tie Currency
on the 18th authorized the following
banks to begin business: The First
National Bank OF Greenville. Mlssls-
sippi, capital $100, 900; the Plano Ma
tIonal Bank of Plano. Texas, capital
$50 600; and the First National Bank
of Remove, Pennsylvania, capital $780,
900.
ID. d. Bell, a colored boy Of eight
years, has confessed that he set fire to
IA number of buildings recently burned
in Lexington, Kentucky. "He says
he knows he cannot be punished for it
by law, ON account of his age, and
plays the incendiary for his OWE
amusement. He Is in custody and the
authorities, being afraid to turn him
loose, are puzzled to know what to do
with him."
"A freshet is feared In the Susque-
hanna river at Wilkesbarre. The tres
tie work of tie bridge there was washed
away during the night of the Goth.
An express train on the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad, due In Pittsburg at
half-past SIX O'Clock on the morning of
the goth ult., dashed into a section of a
west bound freight train standing on
the main track at West Newton, 80
miles east of Pittsburg. The fireman,
flrhfn nf Aln fruinhf train yuoo HiIlad
and engineer Gilland was fatally In
jured. The engine connected with the
freight had broken down, and both the
engineer and the fireman were under
the engine when the collision occurred.
The engineer and fireman of the pas
senger train jumped and escaped seri.
Gus INJURY, but a number or the pas
sengers were injured by the conclusion.
IL is said that the engineer of the pas
sener train was tagged in time To stop,
but the air-brakes refused to work, AMI
the attempt to apply the old hand
brakes was not successful. A Lehigh
Valley passenger train and a New
Jersey Central coal train collided ON
the goth ult., at Pond Greek Junction,
near Hazleton. Both engines were
wrecked. Harvey Kerper, a brakes
man, the only person seriously injured,
had both legs broken. Telegraph OPP.
orator Shootz, who is alleged to have
been responsible for the collision in
failing to stop the passenger train, fed
after the accident.
1t is stated at the Treasury De-
partment that the rev nue. for the
month Of July amounts to ove $780,
000, 0O0, an average of more than
S1,000,C COO a day. The expenditures
during the same time, including SILL
10000 paid for pensions, amount to
about SIS, 900. 600, leaving an excess
of receipts of So, 500, 0O0. The ex-
penses so far this month have been
less than wa anticipated, 10y reason of
the failure of the Navy Del artment
TO make certain expected acquisitions.
At the same time the receipts were
greater than was estimated July LIST.
Treasurer Hyatt reported the surplus
on the 29th as $43, 100, 900. an increase
of nearly Sc, 600, 600 since the same date
of last month. Treasury officials be-
lieve, however, that heavy payments to
be made next month will again reduce
the surplus TO about S37, 900 900 by the
first of September.
AT Grand Rapids, Michigan. on
the morning OF the 9th. Charles j.
Wiener, of Paterson, New Jersey,
quarrelled with Mrs. Susan Boufaly |
about an unpaid board bill. He drew
a revolver and shot the woman dead,
then committed suicide. George Evans
and Bud Harris, both colored, fought |
q duel with double-barrelled shotguns, |
only two PAGES apart, near Greenwood, |
Mississippi, on the evening of the 26th.
Evans fell dead and Harris was mort
ally wounded. A wedding among the
miners at Carbon, Indiana, on the
evening of the oath, was attended by a
dance and a drunken ~carouse, which
resulted finally in a general fight. John
Ross, after being terribly beaten. was
shot dead, and four others were
wounded. At daybreak on the morn
Ing Of the Goth, Or. j. e. Mutt was
found on the street with his skull
crushed by a coupling-pin. He is not
a farmer neareFalmouth, Kentucky,
the 9th. went to his farm, on
which his son John Is living. to get his
share Of the wheat crop. and was shot
dead by the son. The latter barri-
caded himself In the house, and ''de-
fed arrest" A mob was being organ
lied to lynch him. Reuben Johnson,
colored, was lynched on the 9th at
Redan, Georgia. for having assaulted a
white woman. Reuben Cole, colored,
for an assault upon a white
woman in Surrey county. Virginia, |
was taken from jail by a mob and
OF the evening of the Goth.
Polly Giles, a seven-year.old white
girl, died in a New York tenement
house on the 18th, from the effects of
a beating inflicted by two colored
boys. They attempted TO assault her,
and when she screamed kicked and
beat her so sayagely al to cause the in
juries W } n resulted i'll her death.
After three weeks of hot weather
unprecedented In New Hampshire, vio-
lent thunder storms occurred on the
evening of the 18th ult. At Franklin
Falls, the storm ragged for ten hours,
washing out the highways and doing
great damage to the crops.
Intense heat prevailed in Central
Illinois on the 2Sth ult. At Peoria the
temperature reached 100 in the shade,
and at Lincoln and Carthage 102. A
number of sunstrokes were reported,
OF them fatal. The tempera-
ture at Kansas City, Missouri. on the
Goth ult., marked 102 in the shade for
three hours. AT Louisville a similar
temperature was reached. At Me-
braska City, Nebraska, ITO degrees was
reached at two O'Clock in the after
noon, with scorching hot winds from
the South" A number OF persons
were sunstruck, but none fatally.
"A wagon containing Joseph Il ch,
aged 30 years, his wife, his mother-in-
and his baby was caught by a rail-
road train near Richmond, Indiana, on
the 29th ult, and all the occupants
were killed except Rich's wife, who
was dangerously injured.
"A tornado passed over David City,
Nebraska, on the evening of the 10Th